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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

The weather this afternoon here was absolutely lovely, perfect for going out in the garden and painting some journal page backgrounds.

I started off trying some watercolour with salt experiments. I had three different types of salt and discovered that the 'Saxa Coarse Sea Salt' gave me the best results (below right, purple). The other two I tried didn't give me a very satisfactory pattern so I started to paint random colours over them. Then I thought, what else could I try that might react with the watercolour paint?

Into the laundry cupboard I went and found this:

...which, to my delight, gave a great resist effect, together with a very ponky flowery smell!

Incidently, I love this Pelikan paint palette, the colours go on bright and stay bright, even when they've dried:

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On Creative Flourishes you will find examples of my photography, mixed media artwork, cardmaking and general art & craft making. Hopefully I will inspire others (as others inspire me) to get creating too! I also include snippets of my family life with my husband and my two teen boys, aged 17 and 15.